Linda McWray's X-Men Fanfiction

Always, His Woman

Chapter 13

The holograms and robots in the Danger Room shifted and changed for the fourth time during their session. Now Rogue, Joseph, Betsy and Bobby were faced with four of their greatest enemies, Mr. Sinister, Magneto, Revanche and Pyro stood ready to pounce on them as soon as the backdrop and scenery aligned. Cyclops and Jean sat at the controls from above watching and noting all progress and all failures of each individual member of the team. Wolverine looked on.

The warning bell sounded and the robot villains started circling them. They quickly stepped in time and did the same thing to the robots in the opposite direction. Magneto’s robot moved first, using his powers to pull ribits out of the wall and hurling them at them. Rogue took flight, Bobby turned to water and Psylocke pulled her psychic katana blade. Joseph counter acted Magneto’s move by hurling them all back at him. The ribits struck him repeatedly, he jerked and twitched until he exploded. "One down and three to go," said Jean from the control room.

The other robots reacted immediately becoming more dangerous to make up for the lost of one of their counterparts. The Pyro robot shot fire at Bobby as he sloshed to one side and dove out of the way, nearly soaking Betsy as she flipped and dove out of the way of Revanche’s robot katana blade. "Bobby!" She

screamed at him. He paused for a moment, "Sorry Bets." Then he was off again in the other direction.

The Mr. Sinister’s robot shot green plasma energy at Rogue and Joseph as they lift and dove all around the Danger Room’s ceiling. "Can you get close tah him Joseph? Ah sure can’t. He’s fast a June bug on a hot tin ...Woe!" She said as another blast caught the back of her leather jacket. She flipped over, taking it off, letting it fall to the floor.

"I’ll try Rogue." Joseph angled up and down with a electromagnetic blast to the Mr. Sinister robot. It did not budge it. "Hummm, it must be housed in a plastic casing." He smiled as he looked for something metal in the room. "The doors! Rogue get the door!" He pointed and the entryway. She immediately flew down and pulled one of the inner three feet thick doors off its hinge and tossed it at the Sinister’s robot. Joseph concentrated, spread his arms out then quickly hugged himself as hard as he could. The metal door mimicked his action as it crushed the Sinister’s robot.

"Two down and two to go," called out Jean.

Betsy cut flips and somersaulted all around the now two bladed Revanche robot, one in each hand, coming up behind as she thrashed trying to cut Bets into bits. Betsy counter acted and sliced the head completely off the robot. It staggered a little before another head replaced it. She did a forward handstand, wrapped her legs around the robots neck, twisted and slammed it to the ground. Betsy quickly stood up and stabbed the robot through the control mechanism. "Ki-yah!" She screamed and smiled.

"Three down and one to go," called out Jean.

Bobby had played the whole while with the Pyro robot, turning to ice one minute then to water the next. Scott looked at Jean, "I got something for him." He pressed a button and the Pyro robot immediately grew to forty feet tall. They all stood in the middle of the floor looking at it as it grew.

The door behind Jean opened and the next scheduled team entered. It was Gambit, Warren, Storm and Bishop all dressed in their X-Men garb. They watched from the window the other team's sequence.

"Oh Shit!" Said Bobby. "Move," he yelled! The robot finally aligned then attacked with full force sending fire in all their directions. Betsy immediately created a psychokinetic bubble around herself, Joseph pulsed a magnetic shield that stopped the fire from reaching him; Bobby dove behind it too. Rogue with nothing to protect her was left exposed. The heat was excruciating but her invulnerability would protect her for a while. "Bobby do something!!" Rogue yelled.

He’d have to produce a lot of moisture to take care of something this big, So be it, but they not gone like it. Bobby called on his powers and pulled all the moisture out of the air and commanded it to turn to freezing rain and sleet. With the temperature at 32 degrees and dropping, he knew they really weren’t going to like it. The Pyro robot tried to stopped the cold wet weather by heating the walls of the room. This turned the falling freezing rain and sleet to water, so he pulled harder on his powers instantly turning everything to ice except his teammates. The robot’s fire was doused. It started squeaking and rocking back and forward as if it was ready to fall. Bobby pulled as hard as he could on his powers and instantly froze the robot until it was brittle. It fell and shattered into large pieces. But it fell too close to where Rogue was. "Look Out!!" Someone yelled. A large piece of shrapnel fell and caught her in the back. She fell like a stone to the floor with the robot.

"Rogue!!" Gambit bellowed in horror as he rushed out of the control room to be by her side. The main door wouldn’t open until the room realigned. Gambit hammered it in frustration. Warren caught his shoulder, "Wait man, it will open in a few minutes." He was answered when Remy turned and blazed his eyes at him. Gambit hurriedly pulled off his coat, battle armor and shirt. Then he threw himself against the wall flat to charge it. The wall glowed all around where he pressed. "Gambit what are you doing? The walls are too thick for you to try that, you’ll blow yourself up!" Warren tried to pull him away from the wall. "Bishop!" Warren cried.

Bishop immediately came and saw what was happening. He took off his gloves and grabbed Remy from behind. "Let go Pup!" With nothing to stop their contact, Gambit’s kinetic energy flowed into Bishop. Remy sunk to the floor as Bishop redirected the energy in one arm and out through the other arm then blasted the door open.

He and Warren helped Gambit up as they walked into the now calm Danger Room. Betsy ran to Warren shivering as he immediately let Gambit go to put his wings around Betsy to help try to warm her up. Joseph and Bobby were seeing about Rogue's wound. Gambit went on his knees beside her. "Chere speak ta me please," he said desperately.

It was still very cold in the Danger Room from Bobby's powers. He looked at him. "Uh Remy, where’s your coat and your shirt?" said Bobby.

He chose to ignore him. He looked at Joseph; "Is she...” Gambit took a closer look at the expression on Joseph's face. Why he lookin’ at Chere like a sick pup? He thought. "... Is she all right homme?"

"Yes she’s fine, she is not even scratched, just dazed a little. She’s had the wind knocked out of her pretty good though."

She turned to see who own the accent, "Remy... is that...is that yah." she sighed.

"Yes mah lover." He answered. "Gambit here Chere."

Joseph was infuriated at hearing this. Bobby watched his expression change forebodingly as he eyed Gambit in disgust and obvious jealousy.

She opened her eyes more to look at him, "You need a shave...where’s your shirt and where’s your coat?" She chuckled between coughs. "It’s freezin’ in here."

"Ah, she c’min around, she fine," laughed Gambit.

Joseph bent down to pick her up. "Uh ...Wha’ ya t’ink ya doin’ homme?" Gambit asked.

"What does it look like I’m doing? I’m taking her to the infirmary to be checked out."

"Non, Non, non..." he shook his head from side to side. " It look like ya 'bout ta get’cha tail kicked if ya don’ take ya hands off her Mon ami, dats wha’ I t’ink!" Gambit told him angrily as he stood up pointing a gloved finger at him.

Joseph put Rogue back down then turned faced Remy. "I’d like ta see ya try it, Mon ami."

Everyone watched Remy as his eyes blazed and his hand glowed. Joseph shield went up.

"There’s no need for anyone tah carry me, Ah can walk." She knew she’d better do something or Remy might end up with all of his iron in his blood pulled out. "Remy help me up!"

He stood there staring Joseph down while Joseph did the same to him.

"Remy! Did yah here me?"

He reluctantly dropped his gaze to her and went down on his knees beside her to help her stand.

Her Lover? Joseph shield went down as he looked at them. He then he backed away, but he couldn't help the stab of jealously that went through him about her and Gambit. Some other time my Cajun friend.

Wolverine came up behind him. "I’d think twice about taken the Cajun on if I were you Bub."

Joseph turned toward him, "And why is that? I’ve seen him fight." As they both watched Gambit assist Rogue up and out the door to the infirmary. Bishop handed him his clothing that he’d gotten from the outside hallway.

"Trust me, you haven’t. He takes it easy around us, don’t wan’ta hurt us none."

"What’s your point Logan?"

Wolverine extended a claw and pointed it at him, then retracted it, and smiled, "Nothin’ slim, yer deserve what’cha get." Then he laughed and went to the other side of the room.

Everyone cleared out of the room as Bishop and Wolverine helped Cyclops fix the outer door that Bishop had blown earlier. The next session was postponed until all repairs could be handled.

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